“When approached with an open mind and heart, art can catalyse empathy and respect between people who, on the surface, seem immiscible’ Question the Image: A View from Two Poles of the World IN APRIL, the online magazine LensCulture published an interview with Alasdair Foster, who was to be one of the panel of judges for their … Continue reading →

~ Latin America–China Extending the Conversation ~ Following the highly successful series of interviews with Australian photomedia artists published in ‘PhotoWorld’ in 2013, the Chinese magazine has commissioned Alasdair Foster to write a further 12 articles based on conversations with photographers in Latin America. 2014 opened with the Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes whose work features on the … Continue reading →

Smart Quote

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy;
that is, the search for
a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

Featured Artist

Shan Turner-Carroll

“I am a part of a modern-day tribe: one that incorporates
the past and
the present.”

Shan Turner-Carroll

Shan Turner-Carroll’s ‘primal crowns’ are woven (some, quite literally) from the strands of past and present. Their value lies not in the extrinsic economies of gold and gems but the intrinsic worth of personal heritage. With Anglo-Burmese antecedents and strong family ties to Papua New Guinea, Shan was born to a nonconformist family … More

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